Indeed, my hot internet sociology take is that women in the late 2010s and early 2020s have done more for tech as a whole than most men in tech working to be cruddy imitations of Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. "Benevolent dictators for life"/BDFLs are outdated social vestiges that should be left in the 1990s and 2000-nots, as women don't make such silly social constructs.
Frances Haugen is of stronger moral conscious than most men in Big Tech, who willing wearing the golden handcuffs of their lucrative jobs, for disclosing the 2021 Facebook leaks. Marta Belcher is working in the legal US framework from the US SEC from completely destroying the fundamental right to use cryptocurrency without being defanged under draconian legal measures. Joy Buolamwini, from the Coded Bias documentary, is fighting racial discrimination pervading facial recognition AI. Meredith Whittaker is providing the publicity Signal needs as President of the Signal Foundation. Last, but not least, Tarah Wheeler was an OG respected cybersecurity voice calling for diversity in hacking conventions, like DEF CON, way before cheap feel-good social media posts were commonplace.
The end of Mr. Robot shows that behind every protagonist like hacker extraordinaire Elliot Alderson, who gets most of the attention in the narrative; there is another unsung and ardent supporter: his sister Darlene Alderson. If there was any doubt that Darlene was Elliot's equal, then it is cast aside when Darlene stays behind to bring Elliot back to reality at the very end, no matter the difficulties in their relationship.
Happy International Women's Day, as the tech world would've already imploded on itself with the women listed here and not listed here, doing real work both in tech and elsewhere.
Indeed, my hot internet sociology take is that women in the late 2010s and early 2020s have done more for tech as a whole than most men in tech working to be cruddy imitations of Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. "Benevolent dictators for life"/BDFLs are outdated social vestiges that should be left in the 1990s and 2000-nots, as women don't make such silly social constructs.
Frances Haugen is of stronger moral conscious than most men in Big Tech, who willing wearing the golden handcuffs of their lucrative jobs, for disclosing the 2021 Facebook leaks. Marta Belcher is working in the legal US framework from the US SEC from completely destroying the fundamental right to use cryptocurrency without being defanged under draconian legal measures. Joy Buolamwini, from the Coded Bias documentary, is fighting racial discrimination pervading facial recognition AI. Meredith Whittaker is providing the publicity Signal needs as President of the Signal Foundation. Last, but not least, Tarah Wheeler was an OG respected cybersecurity voice calling for diversity in hacking conventions, like DEF CON, way before cheap feel-good social media posts were commonplace.
The end of Mr. Robot shows that behind every protagonist like hacker extraordinaire Elliot Alderson, who gets most of the attention in the narrative; there is another unsung and ardent supporter: his sister Darlene Alderson. If there was any doubt that Darlene was Elliot's equal, then it is cast aside when Darlene stays behind to bring Elliot back to reality at the very end, no matter the difficulties in their relationship.
Happy International Women's Day, as the tech world would've already imploded on itself with the women listed here and not listed here, doing real work both in tech and elsewhere.